Tom Waits - “Black Market Baby“

Listen to the full album: “Black Market Baby“ by Tom Waits from the album ’Mule Variations’ Lyrics She lives in a house that’s way back off the road There’s a man with a lantern and he carries her soul A coal stove and a bed A skillet and a hound She drove a camel through A needle In this sinking board walk town She’s my Black Market baby She’s my Black Market baby She’s a diamond that wants to stay coal wants to stay coal I swang out wide with her on hells iron gate Anything that you wanted you could have My eyes say their prayers to her sailors ring her bell Like a moth mistakes a light bulb For the moon and goes to hell She’s my Black Market baby She’s my Black Market baby She’s a diamond that wants to stay coal wants to stay coal There’s no prayer like desire There’s amnesia in her kiss She’s a swan and a